revisionary
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7.1
- adjective
- /rɪˈvɪʒəˌnɛri/
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revisional
- I am calling for a revisionary narrative of American literatures and cultures that would place immigrant writers and their histories as the objects of study and the Indigenous point of view at the center as the subject.
Examples
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In this day and age of revisionary forms of literary and critical thought, La Victoria de Junin deserves to be re-read and has much to offer scholars working in Latin American intellectual, cultural, and literary history.
Academic text (2001) -
Around the middle of the seventeenth century, John Goodwin enlisted pagans into a provocative revisionary project.
Academic text (2018) -
This is revisionary.
Blog text (3) -
The recovery of a lost short novel by Leprohon thus represents an unanticipated opportunity to extend the implications of recent revisionary scholarship.
Academic text (2013) -
If she is open, in appropriate contexts, that this is what she has in mind, a moral error theorist might think that the meaning of such sentences will ultimately be revised -- people generally, or at least those she is likely to be talking to, will eventually come to use the language in this revisionary way.
Blog text (30) -
As such, it enacts a gesture that, while not uncommon to novels of sensibility, also remains underappreciated for its revisionary potential.
Academic text (2013) -
Decades of revisionary work on the Arian controversy, for example, have led to a burgeoning interest in the construction of orthodoxy and heresy as discursive categories.
Academic text (2002) -
Ethnography is a plural and revisionary task, something to be kept loose, not in the pursuit of unassailable truths, but rather with the purpose of acknowledging worlds that resist or lie beyond our certitude and schemes of knowing.
Academic text (1993) -
The author's revisionary approach to the classic novel brought fresh insights to its themes.
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This project adopts a revisionary perspective that aims to update outdated practices in education.
Synonyms
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Changing a document or law to make it correct and clear
Relating to a change made to an earlier procedure, operation, or document
Edited to make a text or plan better
Changed from the original to work better
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Morphology
Etymology
Revisionary comes from the word revise (built from re- 'again' and vision 'see'), so it literally means 'look again'. A helpful image is checking a plan or text once more to make changes, which is why revisionary describes a way of making changes.